It does not happen too often that Mickey, Goofy and Donald show up in the same cartoon, but this one here is among the exceptions. Same goes for the fact that Disney scored Oscar nominations for pretty much everything back in the 1930s and 1940 in the animated short category, but not for this one. Still, 75 years later, it's among the company's more known cartoons. Goofy's riding the van singing a hilarious version of "Comin' round the mountains", Mickey's chilling and enjoying the view and Donald is, of course, sleeping. It quickly turns into an entertaining animated road-movie (there can't be too many of these) and my favorite scene is probably the three at the table eating melons, corn and more.As a whole, I recommend this short film. It's not among my favorite cartoons from the era, but the fact how big Disney was in quality and quantity back then shouldn't diminish those films that weren't among the very best. It's still absolutely worth a watch, not only to animation enthusiasts.

This is not a brilliant cartoon, but it is inventive. Mickey is seen leaving the door of his home, and it is on a brilliant morning, with a gorgeous view behind the house. And he pulls a switch, and the whole house and it's outer perimeter (complete with white picket fence) is mechanically collected and returned to the house, and the gorgeous view turns out to be a fan like device that folds into the back of what is actually a commodious trailer.With Goofy driving, Mickey is in the trailer's kitchen making breakfast. This includes collecting corn from stalks along the roadside (cut as the trailer passes the stalks), and even milking a cow that Goofy is feeding hay to as he drives. Donald gets out of bed (a little difficulty is involved in his arising from bed) and the bed is dropped into a wall, while a huge purse-like bag appears - which is Donald's bathtub with water.So it goes, with crazy inventions turning up. Then the defects of this travel method are shown thanks to Goofy, who first leaves the car still moving along a curvy mountain road, and then manages to disconnect the trailer from the car. The rest of the cartoon involves how the runaway trailer with Mickey and Donald keeps just avoiding disaster - especially by cartoon assistance in avoiding the law of gravity), and how it is reunited with Goofy's car at the end. The action never drops, and the crazy advanced luxury items of that trailer makes the cartoon enjoyable enough - even if it is not a great Disney cartoon. It's a good example of his later color cartoon work, but nothing particularly special.

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.With Goofy at the wheel, a vacation spent in MICKEY'S TRAILER soon turns into a road trip to terror for The Mouse & Donald Duck.Here is one of the classic Disney cartoons, full of good humor, keen inventiveness & some genuine hair-raising thrills. The animation is excellent, giving each member of the trio a chance to shine. The animators took obvious delight in showing the trailer's various gizmos & gadgets, all compacted into a very small space. The opening sequence is very clever, with a tiny cottage and its bucolic setting being transmogrified by Mickey into a jalopy, trailer and stinking city dump.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.

I had a video with a few old Disney cartoons back when I was ten or so, and haven't watched it in about 10 years. I happened to be watching my nephew today, when I decided to pop it in again. And to my surprise, I was still entertained.The best on this tape was a toon from '38 called "Mickey's Trailer." An incredible short, with loads of amazing sight gags...the house revealing itself to be just a trailer by the dump, Goofy getting the short end of the stick via some disagreeable drawers, and probably best of all, a near-miss with a train--TWICE!It is so hard to believe this was made over 60 years ago. Somehow the animators back then had a knack for making their works timeless. Hopefully, kids will be watching this short for another 60 years.